*bit of a longer one, I’d do this over 2 days.
Readings:
- Counterpoints, Chapter 4, pp 94-110
- PPT – The Great Depression
Understand the significance of the following:
- Old Age Pension Act
- Treatment of recent immigrants
- Pogey
- Riding the Rods
- Prairie Droughts (Dustbowl)
- Mackenzie King’s “Five Cent Speech”
- R.B. Bennett’s New Deal
- Bennett Buggies, Bennett Barnyards, Bennett Blankets, etc.
- Shantytowns/ the Jungle
- Communist Party of Canada
- Relief Act/ Relief Camps
- Letters to Bennett
- On to Ottawa Trek
- CCF Party
- Social Credit Party
- Maurice Duplessis & Nationalism
- Dufferin Patullo
- 1938 Vancouver Relief Demonstration (Riot)
- 1935 Mackenzie King’s Re-election
- National Employment Commission
- Rowell-Sirois Commission
- Equalization payments
Concepts to understand (test yourself):
- How would you explain Canada’s reaction to the Great Depression with reference to the political spectrum? Be able to reference specific terms as examples.